Village: I know it says on the spreadsheet that I'm currently in Abasar, but Abasar has recently split up into two villages: Abasar, and Pálosvörösmart. There are about 650 people in Pálosvörösmart and the village has public transportation. My host sisters and I take the bus out to Gyongyos or Eger to go shopping or just walk around and eat about two or three times a week.
Classes: I have 4 one hour classes from monday to friday: my first class is comprised of 5-7 year olds who speak no english whatsoever, so we make origami and i teach them the english words for the paper creations. my second class is with students from the ages of 8-11, who speak little english but know enough so that i can teach them a good amount of vocabulary and some conversational english. my third class (my favorite) is with high school students who are pretty much fluent- so we just talk about America, and they love learning idioms. we watched about half of seaon 8 of Friends because my host sister has the series from seaon 1 to 10 in Hungarian and English.. so I played seaon 8 on English audio and put on English subtitles and i made worksheets that highlighted certain phrases they would not understand ("top-notch", "mother may I!") One of the students mother attended the class one day and we watched an episode where one of the characters talked about a diaphragm.. and the mother asked me to explain what it was. I handed her a dictionary. =) Anyway, my last class, is a night class in which i have students who are in their mid twenties, and they are at the same level as the high school students so they like to practice speaking English (mostly about America and the show House (?)) People in my village seem to be obsessed with American shows such as Friends, House, Grey's Anatomy, Third Watch, etc, etc..and they've rubbed off on me and I am now very much into these shows as well.
Host Family& Free time: There are 4 daughters in my host family at the ages of 15, 17, 19 and 22 who are all rather fluent in English. On weekends, my host family takes me to nearby villages where they hold festivals, or to museums, castles, and whereever else they think I might enjoy. They're simply amazing and have made my stay in Pálosvörösmart so enjoyable- it'll be very hard to say goodbye to them. My host family has 2 dogs, 2 parrots, 2 cats, 3 adorable kittens and 1 guinea pig. My host mother loves to cook (and is AMAZING at it) and I thank her very much for it..well, not so much for the extra pounds but..i'll deal with that later.
anyway- i am loving it here in Pálosvörösmart and I hope next year's volunteers will get a chance to experience the incredible time that i'm having here. see you all soon.
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